THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS - JULIET NICOLSON

Friday 21st August 5pm.

Juliet Nicolson descends from an illustrious family growing up in the impossibly romantic 'Sissinghurst Castle'- her grandparents were Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson who were both associated with the well known influential 'Bloomsbury Group'. Writing is in Juliet's blood and her riveting new book charts long buried secrets which can both thrill and torment, the deepest ones echoing far down the generations. The secrets we keep reflect the conventions and taboos of society and there are deeply moving stories about Juliet's own secrets, commendable for their honesty also, those of her parents unhappy marriage and the unconventional marriage of her grandparents, exploring the secrets behind Vita Sackvill-West's lesbian affair with Virginia Woolf and other women. Truly a book of revelation bringing us right up to the present day.